Sapindus. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 281 
ef most parts of India. Flowering time the beginning of 
the hot season. 
Trunk straight; branches also nearly erect, and few of 
them. Bark smooth, and ash-coloured; height of the tree 
generally about twenty feet. Leaves alternate, about the 
ends of the branchlets alternately pinnate ; from six to 
twelve inches long. . Leaflets subalternate, from eight to 
twelve in number, or from four to six pair, entire, ob- 
liquely lanceolate, oblong, smooth on both sides, and a- 
bout four inches long. Petioles common, round, flexuose, 
smooth, Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axils, - 
diffuse, composed of diverging, compound ramifications, 
Calyx five-leaved. Petals five, equal, and regular. Nec- 
tary, two woolly scales near the base of each petal. Sta- 
mens six or eight; filaments woolly. Germ three-sided, 
_ Sitting, with the stamens, on a large glandular recepta- 
cle, Style single and short. Drupes generally solitary, 
_ Seldom more than one coming to maturity, one-celled, 
subglobular, very smooth, and yellow, with a pretty large 
tidge round the base on the outside, the inside mark- 
ed with the two abortive lobes of the germ. Nuf solitary, 
round, and smooth, aflixed to the inside of its cells, where 
a considerable quantity of woolly fibres intervene. 
With the pulp of the fruit the Hindoos wash linen, &c. 
In January, 1808, a healthy young tree of about twen- 
ty feet in height, reared from seed, received from North 
_ America, under the name Sapindus Saponaria, flower- 
ed abundantly, and ripened many seeds. It differs from 
my detergens ; Ast. in being a larger tree, and more ra- 
mous, 2nd. In the leaflets being acute, and lanceolar, 
_thatis taper at each end. 3rd. In the calyx, and corol 
Consisting of six parts each, which are round, and shorter 
than the germ ; and in’the petals being without the two 
Woolly scales, so conspicuous in detergens, 1 therefore 
Conclude they are distinct species, and doubt if ihe a . 
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